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Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,

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I'm forty. Go ahead, make
my day every single week. I

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put my freaking heart and soul into
this. I don't go out there and

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laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's
funny to me. I don't want to

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go out there and get embarrassed on
Monday night football. For everybody, I

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think this at the beginning of a
beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed

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from yesterday. Still the same person
I was yesterday, and I got the

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same thing for you that I had
yesterday. You know why I'm here.

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You play to win the game.
You don't play to just play it.

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That's a great thing about sports.
You play to win, and I don't

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care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When

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you start telling me it doesn't matter
to retire, get out for the matter.

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Free agency matters, that's for certain, and in today's day and age,

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with the teams that we follow the
most closely, it's vital. How

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good have they been? The Pistons
and or the Red Wings. That's our

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poll question for the day. Which
team has had the better free agent signing

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period? Wings, Pistons, or
neither. You can vote as often as

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you like. We give it to
you on x or on Twitter. Feel

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free follow us EXUS and Bros.
And we'll give it the results at this

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time tomorrow, eight o'clock. In
the eight o'clock hour, I should say

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glad you're with us on this Tuesday. Matt Shepard here on XUES and Bros.

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Across the Great State of May Michigan, Monday through Friday, six until

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nine. Trent Bally is our producer. Today eight thirty five, we will

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talk with Max Boltman, he writes
for The Athletic, and we'll talk about

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the Red Wings and their free agency
signings and what they need to do.

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Because he was very critical of him
in an article yesterday. It's a really

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good read. We'll talk with him
at eight thirty five and we'll look him

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forward to it very much. Of
course, the Tigers head yesterday off.

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They will take on the Twins in
game one of a three game series starting

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tonight. Trek Stuble takes them out
for Detroit, a team that has been

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well. To say it's been struggling
is stating the obvious. I did see

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something yesterday on social media which stunned
me and maybe it shouldn't. But I

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saw something yesterday that said Spencer Torkelsen
for this team for the Tigers, ranked

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second on the club in doubles with
fifteen. He's also sixth on the team

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and extra base hits, which really
shouldn't matter all that much. I suppose

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if you're sixth, I mean,
come on, that's not real high.

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The problem is he hasn't played a
Major League baseball game since June first.

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He has not recorded an extra base
hit since May twenty sixth. You see

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what I mean. So I've been
talking about this for a while now,

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and I don't think it's revolutionary.
I'm not going to sit here and say

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I'm the only one. But it's
something that I identified a long time ago,

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and that is the lack of power. That kind of highlights it for

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you right there. Troubling, serious
problem, not going away are the weekly

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power rankings that we have brought up
on a Tuesday each and every week.

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We don't have to dwell on it. It's from our friends at cbssports dot

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com, and they what they do
is they rank every every Major League baseball

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team and then they give you an
idea of what they were ranked last week.

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Are they up? Are they down? And whatever is, whatever it

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is, it will be giving you
in numerical fashion. Hey, they're up

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to four spots from last week.
So the Phillies remained number one. That's

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not a surprise. I mean that's
a team that is dealing with some injuries.

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It was Trey Turner, he's back. It was jt Realmuto, he's

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still loud. And now it's Bryce
Harper, that's Kyle Schwarber, so AHAMMI

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and a poll Groin respectively, and
yet they keep on chugging long. I

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thought what was number What was interesting
is number two. And again this is

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this is very subjective. You you
and I may have different beliefs on who

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which team ranks where it should in
the you know, in the in the

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thirty rankings. But what it's what
it does tell you is that there are

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certain teams having good weeks, you
know, they start to put things together.

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They've got the Guardians at number two, which is a little surprising because

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Kansas City beat them in a series
three out of four over the weekend.

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But Cleveland is starting to gain I
think the respect that it deserves. Rather

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than a surprise, people are starting
to look at Cleveland as more of a

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legitimate contender all the more, three
LA Dodgers four, and then the Yankees

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five, and after that. I
think it's fair to say that those are

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the for the most part, those
are the top five teams, and you

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can shuffle them in and out,
all right, and I think those are

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the teams that legitimately have a chance
to win a World Championship. I will

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be honest with you, I don't
I don't know how Cleveland could possibly win

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it all. But I didn't think
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So it's time to start practicing what
I preach. I tell people all

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the time, and not just on
this radio show, but I tell people

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all the time. You know,
give credit where credit is due. Why

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do you not believe in a team
just because they haven't done it before?

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Well, hold on a second,
when's the last time the Phillies did it?

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Now they've made the World Series,
But I mean, when's the last

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time they won it? Baltimore,
Yankees, Dodgers, don't give me.

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I mean, stop with the covid
okay sixty sixteen schedule. Stop with that.

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Brewers are ranked six. People think
they can do it. Let's be

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real here, Okay, let's be
fair. Why can't Cleveland do it?

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They've earned what they have right now, who have they lost to or at

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what point during the season have they
looked Have you looked at him and said,

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sorry, you're exactly who I thought. You pulled the wool over my

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eyes for long enough. Now you
are who I thought you were. Come

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on, they haven't done that.
They've been very, very consistent. And

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of course, look, anytime you're
winning a division, you have to be

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consistent, right, But we're past
the midway point. Now. We can't

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change the rules while things are going
on. You and I said X amount

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of games is when we are going
to start believing in a specific team X

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amount of games? Not many of
you claimed the midway point. Shop,

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I'm going to pass. I'm going
to reserve judgment until the midway point.

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Well worried. We're past the eighty
one game threshold and they're still getting it

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done. So I think it's fair
to say to them, or to say

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out loud, let's let's consider them
a contender, because, like I said,

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if we believe the other teams,
Philadelphia and I think they're fantastic.

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It's been since two thousand and eight, they won it. I mean,

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it's not fair to say they haven't
been there because they were there in twenty

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twenty two. You know that Houston
beat them. Dodgers have been there,

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Granted, I said, forget twenty
twenty, but you know they did get

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there in sixteen, seventeen or seventeen
and eighteen, I believe, but lost.

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Cleveland was there in twenty sixteen.
What's wrong with that? I mean

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they lost, but they were still
there Game seven. Yeah, they've been

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there more frequent or most recently than
the Yankees. Right when was the last

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time the Yankees were there? Two
thousand and nine? Yeah, when Girardi

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won. Then they beat who they
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I think. You know we're always
looking. You've got to convince me

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players, teams, you got to
convince me. I get it. I

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feel the same way. But we'll
bring up a local team. And what

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for the national medium. What if
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twenty one thousand. I know there's
a lot of people who feel like,

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oh, you know what, you
talk too much tigers in the morning.

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Well, today, what do we
do. We've kind of diverted things slightly.

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We still talk baseball, but talking
about the recent power rankings with the

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Phillies one, the Guardians two,
the Orioles three, the Dodgers four,

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and the Yankees five. Not a
surprise. Probably Baltimore and Cleveland are two

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teams. I think if you're not
going to root for the Tigers and you

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know they're done, root for these
two teams because of their pay rolls,

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because of how they go about their
business. Baltimore suffered through some mighty years

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of inability and of an organization that
was just not high on anybody's radar,

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not even those in Baltimore, not
any in the Washington, DC area.

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They tried to be as patient as
they could, as did their fan base,

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to let their younger players marinate in
the minors, and when they were

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ready, they called them up.
And look at how successful they are now.

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Cleveland has always done it on a
shoe string budget, and you and

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I don't like it, and we
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Although the Tigers have a higher payroll, it's how they do it. Maybe

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you consider them a rival, and
I think that's fair. I think Cleveland

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and Chicago makes sense as rivals,
although the odd thing is it's probably only

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a rivalry in one sport, if
you can even call it that, in

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baseball, whereas in Chicago it's a
rivalry in hockey, it's a rivalry in

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basketball, it's a rivalry in football
as well, and perhaps baseball if you

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consider the White Sox arrival anyway.
Bottom line is you may consider them a

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rival, but what you do have
to do is really respect how they win

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and how they've built their team.
And I think they're getting their just due.

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And when we talk about a team
like Cleveland at fifty two and thirty

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on the year, fifty two wins
really impressive. Yankees have fifty four,

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Orioles have fifty three. Granted they
play in a better division. Although Minnesota

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and Kansas City are pretty damn good
folks, those two teams have more wins

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than Boston. Those two teams would
be leading the American League West. If

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Kansas City and Minnesota were playing in
the AL West, they would be leading

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that division. Oh, they'd be
tied, okay with Seattle forty seven wins,

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not bad. Play it out,
they have more. They'd be in

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second in the NL West, they'd
be close in the NL Central, and

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they'd be in second in the NL
East. When we sit there and rip

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on our own division, and oftentimes
in the past it's been justified. But

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this year it is viewed, or
should be viewed, with the top three

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teams as a very competitive division.
I'm not going to call it the best,

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but it's pretty damn good. And
we'll get the first hand look.

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Even though as Tiger fans you've seen
them play against Minnesota earlier this year they

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split the four game set, you'll
get a first hand look at the Twins

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starting to let's see how they do
against a guy like Trek Skubel, who

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many people is the odds on leader
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But this leads me to where the
Tigers are in this latest power ranking

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pole. Twins, by the way, are eighth, Royals are ninth.

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So if you take this pole,
and I know it's subjective, I know

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all the asterisks you want to put
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now, midway through the Major League
campaign, three of the top ten teams

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are from the AL Central. That's
impressive and that's as far as it's going

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to go the Tigers. They have
ranked twenty sixth out of thirty, only

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the Marlins, the a's Rockies and
White Sucks are worse. What's the trend

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their chef, because I know they
show how much they've fallen or risen.

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They've fallen one spot. Okay,
the Angels leap frog them because they just

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beat them three out of four.
So the Tigers, here's what they write.

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Jack Flaherty has one hundred and fifteen
strikeouts against fourteen walks in eighty nine

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innings this season. The Tigers are
moving themselves firmly into non contender status,

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so Flarity might be a hot commodity
on a possibly dry trade market. Two

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things jump out to me there.
One is non contender status. I think

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they're already there. I don't think
they're moving that way at all. I

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think they're already there. I don't
know how you feel about it, but

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when you're fifteen games back and when
you're eight games under five hundred, and

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you can't win at home any more
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think those are disastrous signs. Certainly
feels like since the summer began that sentiment

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has really solidified itself. I mean, I think over the last month,

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I don't know if you want to
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That's a good question. Det that's
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do you feel like fans have checked
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comments regarding the Tigers, No,
which tells you something. These are either

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tells us something about our show,
or tells us something about Tigers fans,

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or maybe both. I don't know, but yeah, I think a lot

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of people. Look, you talk
to a lot of people. I talk

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to a lot of people. How
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literally had a friend of mine over
the weekend say I haven't watched them since

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Opening Day, which you know,
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that. That's pretty extreme. Yeah, I said, how is that possible?

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What do you mean since Opening Day? But to meet you in the

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middle there, chep, I mean, I've got buddies who haven't watched since

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May Memorial Day? What are they? Are they watching anything? What are

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they doing instead? I mean I
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they're watching the NBA or watching the
NHL, right, I mean, something

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else might be occupying their headspace,
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but at what point. Once those
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turning your sports attention to. Don't
give me the copa America. Okay,

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I doubt it's Wimbledon in the first
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but you pick that up on Friday
Saturday. You're not even watching opening

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round. I doubt, unless it's
a major, or maybe they're just saying,

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you know what, I'm done.
I'm done for the summer. I'm

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gonna enjoy my summer. I'm gonna
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I'm gonna go out on the boat. I'm gonna go up north.

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I'm gonna do whatever I want where
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standings and how disappointing my baseball team
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for some people because Chefy and I
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watch this. But I think you
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you didn't have to do a daily
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you still watch them. I would. I would, but I understand the

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point you're making. Yeah, I
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We love baseball. We don't love
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team or what's going on, but
we do love baseball. So Detroit down

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one to twenty six. Okay,
the Red Wings have done some signings.

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We'll give you those when we come
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question yesterday. I'm going to get
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when we had some good conversations yesterday, I thought, including Deshaun Tate who

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On X's and Bros. We put
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basis out there. Trent does a
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case you you missed any of it. But a couple of days ago,

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So I want to do that.
I want to in the eight o'clock hour

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today answer yesterday's poll question and just
a reminder of what ours is today.

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Which team has had the better free
agent signing period? Is it the Red

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Wings, is it the Pistons or
neither? Right now early on, neither

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is leading the way. So if
a Friday question Trent was around golf.

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And the reason we brought this up
is because Scotti Scheffler has had such an

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incredible run this year, winning six
tournaments before the month of July. Not

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many have ever done that. I
remember we gave a statistic about how many

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events he had won and I think
before June and Tom Watson was the only

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player to ever have done one.
I believe five before June first. Now

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he's won six before July first,
and I think the last player to do

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that was Tiger Woods somewhere alone those
And because of that, we thought,

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you know what this is kind of
we do a lot of the baseball and

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football and basketball and hockey poll questions
on x'es and bros. But look,

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we know there's a lot of golfers
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important, excuse me, really important
that we keep that in mind too.

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Tiger Woods in two thousand, that
season, it'll never happen again. I

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wouldn't guess. I guess I shouldn't
say never. But he won nine times,

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He had three majors. Right,
he had more than double or almost

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double the prize money of Phil Mickelson
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So he won the US Been,
He won the Open Championship at St.

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Andrews. He won the PGA in
a playoff, so he was that two

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thousand was just it was a dominant
season, right. Scotty Scheffler is the

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first golfer since Woods and nine to
win six times in a year. So

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many people were comparing the two seasons. Woods in two thousand had uh at

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the time, well of Scheffler's six
wins. They each had six wins.

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Woods won three majors, Scheffler won
two. Woods in the top five had

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twelve, Scheffler ten. Woods won
sixty five percent of the earnings. Scheffler's

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won fifty nine percent. The scoring
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and he has a few other statistics
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it was worthy of putting that on
there. I think there's a lot of

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people who immediately look at it go
there's no way, Come on, give

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me a break. There's no way
he could have something similar to tiger Woods

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when you mentioned greatest golfer zever,
Jack Nicholas, Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan,

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right, certain players monumental status,
Scotti Scheffler, it's more about,

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hey, he's the best now,
but there's no way he's one of the

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best of all time. He continues
like this another year or two, you

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are going to be talking about him
in the same realm, not as of

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but in the same realm. So
that's the reason we've had that poll question.

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So correct me if I'm wrong there, Trent. I believe we got

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a pretty good response to that.
What was the final results of that poll

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question from Friday? Yeah, we
asked you guys, Scotti Scheffler deserved to

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be in the same conversation as Tiger
Woods, and it was a resounding no.

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Seventy two percent of you said no, and shef I'm curious your thoughts

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on this how much of that do
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Because he has some of that Tim
Duncan, Pete Sampress. He's very

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straight laced, quiet, a little
stoic, some might say, and he's

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not super marketable from a personality standpoint. Do you think that has a hand

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in this at all? I love
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and Pete Sampress. That's really well
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Tiger Woods' personality? I mean,
is he Bryson Deshambo? No, but

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he's definitely he gets fired up.
Okay, he gets fired up on certain

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but when he's in front of the
camera he's locked in. Yeah, I

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mean he's he's very stoic. Is
that a good way to say it?

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Sure? Okay, there's not much
personality in front of the camera. There

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is emotion on the golf course,
more than Scottie Scheffler, for sure,

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But I don't know if Tiger Woods
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There are certain personalities in sports.
Look, Bubba Watson's a personality and

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people don't like him because he shows
emotion on the course. Here's the bottom

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line, we'll make exceptions to what
we consider our own personal rules in sports

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if the person we're talking about is
a winner. Tiger Woods is one of

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the greatest champions the golf and or
sports world has ever seen. He's stoic,

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he doesn't give you much in front
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dry and dare I say bored in
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because he is among the greatest,
he gets a pass, and because he's

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won, and because he's earned the
trust of the fans, he kind of

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has a swagger to him, and
it works. It works. Doesn't work

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for everyone, but it works for
Tiger Woods absolutely. The TV networks make

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sure they tread lightly when they talk
about him when he's struggling. Yeah,

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personality. Look, I mean this
whole belief that we've got to be entertained,

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and we've got to be entertained not
just by the person who is participating

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in the sport on the field or
ice or course or whatever, but also

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off. It is a joke because
some of the greatest of all time,

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we're not like that off their field
of play. But if they're great,

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we'll give them the pass. That's
all that matters win and that's cool.

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I'm fine with that. Just make
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me that you want Lee Trevino all
the time. That might be a little

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too old for many of you people, but he was very fun, loving

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on the course and in front of
the microphone too, smiling, happy,

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dancing. You want chee chee Rodriguez
all the time from Scotti Scheffler because you

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want a personality. But you didn't
get that with Tiger Woods. You didn't

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get with Jack Nicholas. You didn't
get it with Arnold Palmer. Phil Micholson

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smiled a lot. You may not
trust him, but he smiled a lot.

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He was very polite. He would
talk a lot while he's on the

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chorus and talk a lot when he's
off the course. He was one of

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you when he showed up at a
recent public course and made some bets.

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Charming, charming, good way to
describe it. But you didn't like him

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because he wasn't as good as Tiger
Woods. Okay, cool, don't give

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me the Scottie Shuffler's boring so you
don't like him. That's my son's argument.

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He's boring in what way he's so
consistent. Oh so you want a

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guy who sprays it all over the
course, all over the course, and

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then finds a way to scramble his
way to a birdie. People love chaos,

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especially in individual sports like this.
It's more it makes for a more

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exciting viewing experience, right, wrong
or indifferent? Yeah? Not. Everyone's

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going to be a golf purist and
wants to see the pretty shot. It's

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the same thing in tennis. Oh
yeah. John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors.

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Both of them were strong personalities,
weren't afraid to complain, weren't afraid to

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show their emotion. Dare I say, play with their emotion on their sleeve.

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But everybody want to Ben Borg at
the time because he was stoic and

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he was quote unquote professional. Now
today it's completely different. You got guys

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with their hats backwards. Guys are
screaming left and right, Guys are pointing

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at where they thought the ball was
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bounds. And people gravitate to herd
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eighty six six eight three eight forty
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some texts that I want to get
to as well. I'm glad we were

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able to answer that pole question.
We'll answer yesterday's in the eight o'clock hour,

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and our pole question for you today
is pretty simple. Which team has

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had better free agent signing period?
The Wings, Pistons or neither. Vote

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is often as you like on x'es
and bros. On Twitter, we got

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a caller, Yeah, Mark,
Mark from gun Lake wants to chime in.

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All right, Hey, Mark,
good morning. Do you how are

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you? Hey? Hey, I'm
loving the conversation. I was born in

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sixty I'm as I'll tell you my
age right now, so I had to

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grow up with Cassius Clay and your
conversation this morning reminds me of how he

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had to win over the public and
when he did not go into the service.

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You know, my father, my
grandfather, they're all in the Navy

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and all that other stuff, and
they didn't like him, you know,

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and he had to he had to
do stuff, you know, for the

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public to absolutely love him, you
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even though it was hired in the
sixties with the you know, the

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issues we had in Detroit and all
the big cities. But you know,

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that's that's what That's what your conversation
is leading me to think of was when

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I was a kid, you know
so, but like a kind of like

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a diplomat at a question with the
unrest with Russia and Ukraine and Israel,

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and I see these commercials come up
for the twenty twenty four Olympics. What's

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going on with these teams from these
countries? Are they going to participate?

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Are they going to be accepted?
What happens if they go up against each

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other? I want to hear your
opinion on that a second. It's a

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great question. I'm okay, have
a great question. Thank you, Yeah,

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you too, Mark, It's an
excellent question. What happens? I

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guess I would ask you this,
what happens in a tennis tournament when Andre

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Rublev, who's an outstanding tennis player, but he's a Russian, he is

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playing somebody from one of those countries
they play. Now, I know that's

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a little different because you've got,
of course, an entire nation being represented

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by its athletes. I think,
and this is obviously a perfect world.

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Wouldn't it be nice to have athletes
from Russia and Ukraine in France unite?

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Now? I don't think that's going
to happen because Russian athletes will probably be

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you know, ostracized, or something
bad would happen to them when they returned

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to their homeland. I don't think
it's is that the Olympic governing bodies job

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to tell Russian athletes who have been
training for years to try and reach this

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point. Sorry, you don't deserve
to participate in gymnastics because your country is

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led by a ruthless idiot. So
you and I have seen, based on

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our ages, we've seen what's happened
in the nineteen eighty Olympics and the controversy

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surrounding that, and teams still played
or their nations were still represented. So

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because certain precedent has been set in
that regard, and because I don't believe

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those all those athletes share the same
views. When you start treading into political

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waters with your Olympic athletes, that's
a dangerous road to walk, I believe.

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So my guess is they would be
participating, and I would hope they

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would. I could tell you this
when you watch tennis. I'm just going

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to use this as an example.
Okay, when you watch tennis right now

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and you see athletes from Russia participating
they are not Most nations and their athletes

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receive a you know, they have
the national flag next to their name,

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so you get an idea of who
which player is which. Okay, if

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Alena Sittlena is of Ukrainian descent,
okay, if she's volleying in a in

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a major, or or even if
she's not, okay, But let's say

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she's she's playing against Diana Schnader,
she's a Russian teenager in an early round,

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so it's Ukraine against Russia. Wouldn't
it be great to have those two

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come to the net, hug one
another, embrace and give us an idea

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of how things might be able to
change and how they don't really believe in

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the cause of what's taking place right
now. That would take great guts,

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That would take an awful lot of
courage by the Russian youngster Schneider to do

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that, and I doubt she would. But I don't think they're going to

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play and then they're not gonna shake
hands or they're not going to embrace like

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tennis combatants do. So my guess
is they're going to participate. I believe

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they should because I don't think they
should be punished for the things that they've

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done. What if the Olympics were
in China, considering what the US in

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the past, not right now,
but considering what the uh the US has

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done and the relations they've had with
China, which may not always be a

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positive thing, should they Should we
be banned from it because of the people

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in our government. I know it's
different. It's obviously different when you're you're

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talking about a war, you're talking
about unnecessary death. But no, I'm

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I mean, that's that's just my
opinion on it. I think I'm not

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going to penalize world class athletes for
the misguided direction of their government. But

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it's a good question, and it's
one that I hope others have thought deeply

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as a Golden State Warrior. Excuse
me, right, I would think so.

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Give me some other players who finished
their careers elsewhere think about this for

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